I hope everyone is having a great Christmas! This will be one of the shortest posts ever. Just wanted to highlight the back to back storms on our doorstep.

Storm number one is just beginning to arrive. It will bring 1 to 1.5 inches of rain between now and Thursday evening. The bigger story will be the winds. Winds will gradually increase throughout the day reaching their peak between 9pm tonight and 2am. Widespread wind gusts of 45 to 55pmh are likely. Expect power outages tonight throughout the region.

Thursday will be showery with heavy downpours at times and winds gusting to 30mph.

Thursday night and Friday morning is when storm number two rolls in. Expect another inch plus of rainfall which will push some smaller creeks closer to overflowing, and again, another intense round of wind. For this storm we have the potential for just as strong of winds. Right now I’m expecting widespread top wind gusts to reach 45 to 55mph here in the valley. Expect additional power outages.

Traveling over the Cascades will be rough. Snow levels are fairly high for both these storms, but the tops of all our mountain passes will be prone to heavy wet snow with near whiteout conditions at times this afternoon through Friday morning.

Saturday and Sunday both look wet with more gusty winds at times, but for now let’s enjoy what we have and who we have around us, stay safe, and let’s see what happens.